Consider Reading

Books that we recommend.Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian NationalismSalon.com reporter Goldberg dives into the
religious right and sorts out the history and networks of what to most
liberals is an inscrutable parallel universe. She deconstructs
"dominion theology," the prevalent evangelical assertion that
Christians have a "responsibility to take over every aspect of society."

Letter to a Christian Nation“Thousands of people have written to tell me
that I am wrong not to believe in God. The most hostile of these
communications have come from Christians. This is ironic, as Christians
generally imagine that no faith imparts the virtues of love and
forgiveness more effectively than their own. The truth is that many who
claim to be transformed by Christ’s love are deeply, even murderously,
intolerant of criticism. While we may want to ascribe this to human
nature, it is clear that such hatred draws considerable support from
the Bible. How do I know this? The most disturbed of my correspondents
always cite chapter and verse.”

The God DelusionRichard Dawkins, in The God Delusion, tells
of his exasperation with colleagues who try to play both sides of the
street: looking to science for justification of their religious
convictions while evading the most difficult implications—the existence
of a prime mover sophisticated enough to create and run the universe,
"to say nothing of mind reading millions of humans simultaneously."
Such an entity, he argues, would have to be extremely complex, raising
the question of how it came into existence, how it communicates
—through spiritons!—and where it resides.

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons EverythingHitchens, one of our great political
pugilists, delivers the best of the recent rash of atheist manifestos.
The same contrarian spirit that makes him delightful reading as a
political commentator, even (or especially) when he's completely wrong,
makes him an entertaining huckster prosecutor once he has God placed in
the dock. And can he turn a phrase!: "monotheistic religion is a
plagiarism of a plagiarism of a hearsay of a hearsay, of an illusion of
an illusion, extending all the way back to a fabrication of a few
nonevents."

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the NonbelieverFrom
the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a
provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic
thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman
Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly
godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential
voices--past and present--that have shaped his side of the current (and
raging) God/no-god debate. With Hitchens as your erudite and witty
guide, you'll be led through a wealth of philosophy, literature, and
scientific inquiry, including generous portions of the words of
Lucretius, Benedict de Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Mark Twain,
George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, H. L. Mencken, Albert
Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and many others
well-known and lesser known. And they're all set in context and
commented upon as only Christopher Hitchens--"political and literary
journalist extraordinaire" (Los Angeles Times)--can.
Atheist? Believer? Uncertain? No matter: The Portable Atheist will
speak to you and engage you every step of the way.